3. Israel

78% America-loving

Israel’s love for the U.S. is essentially a defense alliance. As Israel and the U.S. battle to balance competing interests in the Middle East, we trade in the billions and peripherally contribute to each other’s military complex.

Back in 1962, President John F. Kennedy told Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir that America had a “special relationship with Israel.” Since then, the Jewish story in American culture extends from Hollywood to New York, and on to Israel. In both political and popular culture, the Cold War solidified the bond born out of the holocaust years.